Meeting online has become the most popular way U.S. couples connect: study

Re:Meeting online has become the most popular way U.S. coupl... by MaximumYComb on Friday August 23, 2019 @05:46PM (#20782986)

I know how to flirt, the issue is a lot of women don't want guys flirting with them constantly. In another reply, I mentioned how the demographics of my city have a lot of men from a middle eastern background. Their culture is much more forward and the women I know in my life complain about getting constantly hit on.

This isn't an issue of me being socially incompetent, it's about me trying to be a decent human and not annoy women who are constantly being annoyed. Likewise, I don't want to hit on women in a workplace setting because I feel that people should be able to come to work without being made to feel uncomfortable. Some women may like it but some will feel uncomfortable and it's the latter group I'm being respectful towards.

My policies mean I probably sleep with fewer women than I could but dating in 2019 is already stupidly easy.

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Re:Meeting online has become the most popular way U.S. coupl... by solotronics on Friday August 23, 2019 @08:28PM (#20784237)

From what I can tell the perceived value of a guy impacts the reaction of him hitting on a girl. If your read the tinder statistics middle eastern guys have it harder (seen as lower socially). If you're a successful rich good looking guy girls will love your attention. It seems primitive but hey were just animals at the end of the day.

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Re:Meeting online has become the most popular way U.S. coupl... by turtlecloud on Saturday August 24, 2019 @12:46PM (#20788166)

If you are in Europe, my understanding is that the middle eastern people hit on women a lot because their impression is that white/western women are easy/promiscuous.

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Re:Meeting online has become the most popular way U.S. coupl... by username90 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @01:10PM (#20788336)

Middle eastern men hit on women a lot since refugees are overwhelmingly male, meaning that you have a lot of guaranteed bachelors among them who gets desperate.

> men made up nearly three-fourths (73%) of Europe’s asylum seekers in 2015.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/08/02/number-of-refu...

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Re:Meeting online has become the most popular way U.S. coupl... by danenania on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:00PM (#20784943)

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Re:Meeting online has become the most popular way U.S. coupl... by shahbaby on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:30PM (#20785034)

And this is how men turn into orbiters.

You carefully calibrate your approach while she sleeps around with much better looking men who don't need to.

It's pretty sad.

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